David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, “Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill” (1843–47), calotype print (courtesy Scottish National Portrait Gallery) Although Hill ...
The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...
In January of 1838, news reached William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in London that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) had announced his direct positive process to the Academy of Sciences in ...
The calotype, familiarly explained : being a treatise on its objects and uses, and the methods of preparing the sensitive paper, and taking pictures by the agency of light / by W. Raleigh Baxter ...